Eli’s knight party

Eli is turning 5 on Wednesday and to celebrate we had a knight party. We went through many different party options through the year (which I think he started talking about just after Christmas), but finally settled on the knight party.

Ser Eli

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Everyone got a personalised (hand made) shield and sword. The shields I cut out of 6mm plywood. The swords are a PVC inspection T and some 20mm conduit covered with a piece of pool noodle.

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The PVC pipe inside the pool noodle give the sword….well…quite a bit more punch. Luckily we had shields too.

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The knights (and the one princess) had to storm the dragon’s castle. First shoot a water balloon with the giant slingshot (which took some engineering to put together – a little finicky to load, but overall a success).

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Climb the ladder to scale the wall, then up the tree and over the monkey rope.

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From the monkey rope it was down to the rope swing to cross the moat, and then down to the dragon himself (to pop a balloon and start again). A super big thank you to Marguerite who made the dragon head for us.

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We had a ring for throwing arrow darts through

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There was lots of general sword fighting, with Steven taking on the little knights

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And other adults needing to defend themselves

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Eli also took some time to settle on his cake, but when DonnĂ© suggested that he could cut off the dragon’s head, then he was all in.

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Hiding inside the dragon was some dragon treasure

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At the end we rounded things up with a few rounds of “jousting” (also known as sword fighting while riding on dads’ shoulders’)

Knight lollies and flaming arrow marshmallows

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The Knight Family Drennan’s (who really couldn’t quite all get it together to look at the camera at the same time for this photo).

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Everyone had lots of fun, and we definitely enjoyed the party. Thank you to everyone who came, for all the gifts for Eli, and for joining in the fun.

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One Comment

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    Lisa W September 19, 2017

    So much fun!!!

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